Tomcat deployement issue in a Maven project

Question

I have been trying to create a simple maven web based project to be confident about maven. I have added tomcat7 plugin in my pom.xml to use it as a server. But when i started to

Answer 1

I got this working too thanks to points in this post.. Things I got stuck on were: The POM file - you need a slash on the beginning of the path (or it tried to install it under /manager/ and fails):

    org.apache.tomcat.maven
    tomcat7-maven-plugin
    2.2
    
        http://10.54.17.35:8080/manager/text
        LoginForTomcat
        /displayService
    

provide server credentials in ~/.m2/settings.xml:

    
        LoginForTomcat
        figgy
        passw0rd
    

On the tomcat server, you need to define manager-script and manager-jmx:

Looking over this everything here is in the posts above, posting this to clarify things.